This sounds great to me. I'd be happy to spend an extra day (and the money) to share/discuss/workshop . . . .
Cheers,
TET
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From: CASLL/Inkshed [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Graves
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:04 PM
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Subject: Inkshed 2010
While registering for the CASDW conference the other day I started to
think about booking airfare, and that made me consider dates for my
return flight. We had talked on this list about an Inkshed conference
this year (see Brock MacDonald's message below) and perhaps drawing
upon shurli macmillan's ideas (1-4) for the program:
1. a space to share drafts with other writers working to get an
article publication-ready
2. an opportunity to meet with others working with a particular
theoretical framework or concept or method intrinsic to their research
3. an opportunity to bring a pedagogical practice for a test-run and
discussion
4. inkshedding and discussion in response to CASDW papers or panels...
I checked into renting a meeting room at a hotel, and the costs worked
out to $640 ($500 plus taxes) for the room plus whatever food and
drink we wanted to order (approximately $40/person for a buffet
lunch). With 20 people attending the room cost would be roughly $30
each; the room plus lunch would be about $75 per person based on 20
people registering. The room holds 36 people and can be set up with
round tables.
Is there any interest in doing this? We need a decision before people
start booking tickets, I think.
Roger
Roger Graves
Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Brock MacDonald <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: June 2, 2009 9:09:58 AM MDT (CA)
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Inkshed 2010
> Reply-To: CASLL/Inkshed <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Graham's forthright rejection of nostalgia for the "old Inkshed
> days" is actually very much in the spirit of the meeting we had in
> Ottawa-not that a certain amount of nostalgia wasn't expressed
> there, but it quickly yielded to more pragmatic considerations.
> Taking up Roger's call (or challenge?) to elaborate on his summary,
> here's my sense of the main points of our deliberations, which I
> hope will be helpful:
>
> We talked quite a bit about the fact that the Canadian conferencing
> landscape has changed since the old Inkshed days. CATTW has morphed
> into CASDW and now seems to meet the conferencing needs of a wider
> membership, with a wider range of research and teaching interests,
> than it used to; the formation of the Canadian Writing Centres
> Association (CWCA) has given that constituency a separate conference
> of its own. The current strength of these other conferences means
> that Inkshed needs to redefine its niche-it needs to offer something
> compelling and distinctive, if it is to continue.
>
> We all agreed that Inkshed's greatest strength was always its
> character as a kind of anti-conference, different from the standard
> ninety-minute-panel, twenty-minutes-per-talk, ten-minutes-of-
> questions model. However, we noted that Inkshed has actually
> drifted towards that standard talking-heads model in recent years,
> simply to accommodate the number of participants who wanted to
> present. This trend has meant less and less time for both
> inkshedding and discussion, both of which, we all agreed, were
> important elements of the conference.
>
> A side issue, but nevertheless a very important consideration: we
> agreed that Inkshed as a kind of retreat experience (three days
> isolated in a resort somewhere, all participants present the whole
> time) is no longer tenable. The cost factor puts participation out
> of reach for grad students and the underemployed, and it makes
> attending increasingly difficult even for well-established members.
>
> So, we asked ourselves, with all these things in mind, is there a
> need and a purpose for Inkshed now, and if so in what form? Do we
> in fact want something different, an anti-conference (for lack of a
> better term) that offers a kind of experience that CASDW and CWCA
> don't? Obviously, all of us who were at the Ottawa meeting agreed
> that we do, but this is the first question that everyone else in
> CASLL now needs to ponder, it seems to me, before we start thinking
> about the planning questions Roger has raised.
>
> In Ottawa we did go so far as to speculate that this reconfigured or
> reborn Inkshed might not have conventional papers at all, that it
> could be some kind of "working conference" (as indeed Inkshed was in
> some of its early years), its details, focus, process, etc to be
> determined later. We also came up with the schedule Roger has
> outlined, Inkshed following CASDW but away from the Congress site,
> so that it would be clearly distinct from the latter (I don't recall
> that we agreed that Talent Night would be on the first evening,
> though, Roger-I don't think it will work except at the end,
> considering how much of the fun is usually based on the conference
> itself). However, as I said, the detailed planning should really
> come a bit later; to Inkshed, or not to Inkshed-at all!--that's the
> first question.
>
> Brock
>
>
>
> On 01/06/09 3:00 PM, "Graham Smart" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Well, OK, hoping to get a conversation started, here goes: For me
> the decision about whether to stay in Montreal an extra day to
> attend Inkshed would depend entirely on what was planned for the
> Tuesday. The question for me would be, will what's planned for the
> day contribute to my research and/or teaching in some way? To be
> brutally honest, feelings of nostalgia for the 'old Inkshed days'
> wouldn't enter the picture in any real way.
>
> Having just come back from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Vietnam,
> where people seem to have a much greater and wonderfully gracious
> sense of community, beyond the self, I realize how individualistic
> and self-centred this sounds, but if I'm honest, this is what I
> would be thinking about in making a decision.
>
> Graham
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roger Graves <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, June 1, 2009 12:27 pm
> Subject: Re: Inkshed 2010
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>> I am writing to share the results of a meeting of people
>> interested in
>> attending an Inkshed conference next year who also happened to
>> be
>> attending the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse
>> and
>> Writing meeting in Ottawa May 24-26.
>>
>>
>>
>> About 18 people talked about the possibility of organizing an
>> Inkshed
>> conference next year. The group decided that there was interest
>> in
>> holding a conference. This group, composed of people attending
>> the
>> CASDW, felt that holding Inkshed immediately after the
>> CASDW
>> conference was a workable plan. A proposal was floated to devote
>> the
>> evening after the third day of CASDW (Monday May 31 2010) and
>> all day
>> the next day (Tuesday June 1 2010). The Monday meeting would be
>> held
>> in the McGill Graduate Student centre and consist of the AGM
>> and
>> "talent" night, and the Tuesday would the program of the
>> conference.
>> The Tuesday meeting would be held in a meeting room at one of
>> the
>> Congress hotels, and would include lunch. Inkshedders would
>> be
>> responsible for their own accommodations, breakfast, and dinner.
>> Costs
>> for the conference would likely be limited to the lunch and the
>> costs
>> of renting the meeting room.
>>
>>
>>
>> The format and nature of the program is yet to be determined; I
>> am
>> seeking descriptions proposing what that program might look like
>> to
>> include in the next issue of the Newsletter. Please send
>> these to
>> Heather Graves ([log in to unmask]) or
>> [log in to unmask]
>> before July 31.
>>
>>
>>
>
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